Ten acts, half a dozen suburbs, and all of them about ten minutes from Kincumber. A singer and a wedding DJ give the town itself as home, then a songwriter at Erina, two singers at Copacabana, a DJ and an MC at Terrigal, and a duo, a cover band and a rapper at Gosford. Is that better than a beach town's page? For choosing between people, yes.
That is the payoff of sitting where Kincumber sits. It is behind the headlands rather than on them, at the point where the Avoca and Copacabana roads meet the run into Gosford, so nearly the whole southern end of the Coast is within a quarter of an hour. The trade mix backs it up too, with DJs and cover bands deepest, then duos and singers.
Top picks are the nearby performers with the most visible reviews, then rating, then the closest; further afield the closest come first, and premium listings break remaining ties. Distances are straight-line from Kincumber. Ask each act whether they travel to your venue and what that costs.
A solo singer and a wedding DJ both give Kincumber as home, so they are on the page with no distance at all. Everyone behind them is at Erina, Copacabana, Terrigal or Gosford, none more than a few minutes down the road. For a town this size that is an unusually deep set of genuinely local options.
It is, at about ten minutes over the bridge, and the duo, cover band and rapper based there will quote you as a local job. The only thing that changes on a Gosford booking is the run back across the water late at night, which nobody charges for at that distance. So treat the Gosford names as part of your own shortlist.
Hours, the number of setups and whether they are also doing the ceremony and the speeches are what move it, and travel barely enters into it at these distances. A marquee at a house needs power, lights and a wet-weather answer, where a function room might already have half of it. The from-prices beside the DJs on this page are what Coast DJs are asking at the moment.
Not in the nearest ten here, no, and I would rather say so than imply the order means something it does not. What that leaves you is the enquiry itself, so ask each act what they played most recently and for a video from an actual function. Two or three questions in a first message tell you more than a star rating would anyway.
Acts from half a dozen different suburbs are all a short run from you, which means you can ask several for the same date without any of them adding a travel line. Use that. Get three quotes rather than one.
The DJ in town specialises in weddings, and a wedding DJ usually covers ceremony music, the formalities and the dance floor off one booking. Ask what happens if the ceremony is somewhere else, since a second site means a second setup.
A lot of Kincumber entertaining happens at houses backing onto Cockle Bay and Kincumber Broadwater, where the front door and the parking are a long carry from where you actually want the music. Walk that path yourself before you promise it to anyone.